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By Forward Staff
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Isaac Mizrahi
He Has Become a Jew of Stature, By Design Once teased by the other boys in his modern Orthodox Brooklyn day school, Isaac Mizrahi became a person of standing in the community this year, when the Jewish Museum dedicated an exhibit to the fashion designer’s work over the decades. Including costumes he created for several…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Bob Dylan
Most Likely He’ll Go His Way (To Sweden, for a Nobel Prize) As of press time, there was one thing that nearly everybody in America knew and another that only one person did. What everybody knew was that the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an American-born Jewish singer-songwriter, memoirist, poet and occasional…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Natalie Portman
Black Swan Actress Comes of Age as a Director Israeli-American Natalie Portman, 35, has long been a darling of screens small and large. She’s also been a major Jewish icon, publicly celebrating her identity as a member of the tribe. This year, her exploration of what it means to be a Jew, as well as…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump – The Jewish Trump Card Donald Trump’s now Jewish daughter, Ivanka Trump, used to seem like a different kind of Trump. Sure, Ivanka, 35, worked for her dad at the Trump Tower in NYC. And sure, just like her father, Ivanka capitalized on the Trump name, spinning off the Ivanka Trump lifestyle brand…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Geza Rohrig
Plaudits Flood in for Son of Saul Actor Géza Röhrig, 49, a Hungarian-born Hasidic Jew and star of “Son of Saul,” rocketed to fame this year after winning acclaim for his performance in the film, which scored the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. As we soon learned, the man was as remarkable as…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Julia Ioffe
Target of Anti-Semitism and a Fiery Responder The rise of the anti-Semitic “alt right” this year sent chills through the Jewish world and beyond. And no one was more affected or more spirited in her response than Julia Ioffe. Instead of huddling in fear, Ioffe pushed back against the trolls. The virulent Jew hatred was…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Edited the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary for the 21st Century Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, 58, was born into a legendary Yiddishist family. And with the completion of the “Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary” — co-edited with Paul Glasser — she has become a part of the legend herself. The fruit of their labor, a monumental work featuring more than 83,000…
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A Year of Curses and Many Blessings Theo Epstein
The Cubs’ Dealmaker and Cursebreaker Having overturned the 86-year-old curse of the Bambino for the Boston Red Sox in 2004, Theo Epstein brought similar good fortune to the Chicago Cubs. This year, the Cubbies won the World Series and toppled the 108-year-long curse of the billy goat. Anyone who knew Epstein’s family might have predicted…
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